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LLVM's Clang Now Successfully Builds Qt

04-11-2011, 10:40 AM

Phoronix: LLVM's Clang Now Successfully Builds Qt

A week after the release of LLVM 2.9 with Clang, it now appears that it's successfully building the Qt library. Not only is Clang being boot-strapped and compiling Qt4, but it's also building the WebKit module. Once everything's built, it's working and even the Flash module is working from within there...

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Once this can build Linux. BSD and KDE, there is no GNU/ in Linux anymore. Not that removing all FSF software is great, but it would be funny to shove that into RMS' face.

Maybe there's no GNU/ in the name, but there's a lot of GNU software and will be. I prefer to use and support GNU software than BSD. Even if Clang will be able to build Linux it has to also reach performance parity with GCC. Keep in mind GNU != GPL and the GPL is the most important license in FLOSS (no surprise it's the most widely used in Open Source projects). Linux and BSDs owns GNU a lot, but it doesn't mean we should say GNU/Linux, GNU/BSD. More correct is KDE/Linux, Gnome/Linux, but this sucks. I'd also like to see some performance comparison between desktop application with different compilers used. However, I have no idea how to make such benchmark.